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...Percy Hammond ? "One wonders what the motion picture scenarists will do when they endeavor to amplify the incidents of The Werewolf for the purpose of the cinema...
...Percy Hammond ?"A delirious curio...
...Aquitania (Cunard)-John Hays Hammond, famed mining engineer; Constance, Lady Baird, and Sir Thomas Glen-Coats with the 4 six-metre British yachts to compete for the British-America cup in the International Yacht Race at Oyster...
...will at a speed of 50 mi. an hour on the surface, or 27 mi. submerged. It was in this connection that he developed a type of non-interferable radio transmission. Several foreign Governments were reported to have offered tremendous sums for the patents of this torpedo. Young Hammond preferred to let the U. S. Government have them for $750,000. In 1916, the arrangements for the sale were made, but, in the Government's leisurely way, not carried out. Meanwhile, the development of bombing from airplanes led the Chief of Coastal Artillery to doubt the value...
...During the Boer War, John Hays Hammond Sr. was sentenced to death for his activities. Later, the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Finally he was released on payment of a $125,000 fine. Free and healthy, he lived en to become Chairman of the U. S. Coal Commission and now enjoys a plutocratic...